Eoin is just five now, and his father is long dead, and his mother has been missing for just as long.Īnne looks uncannily like Eoin’s mother, also named Anne Gallagher – so much so that everyone thinks she is his mother. But Thomas is also the legal guardian of Eoin Gallagher… Anne’s grandfather. Luckily, a doctor – Thomas Smith – is the one to find her, and she ends up staying in his home while she heals. He’s requested that his ashes be spread on the lake where he grew up.īut while Anne is on that lake, she suddenly slips back in time, landing in 1921 with an unexpected gun wound. She has no other living family, and her successful novelist career can wait as she travels back to Eoin’s homeland, Ireland. What the Wind Knows starts with Anne Gallagher, a 30-year-old woman whose beloved grandfather, Eoin, has just died. Sure, that was set in 1300s Italy and What the Wind Knows takes us to 1920s Ireland… but the comparison, however slight, is still there.Įnough of my random, personal, nerdy reasons for picking up the book.
The basic plot reminds me of one of my favorite novels of the last few years, The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer. Third: What the Wind Knows follows a woman as she falls back in time, stuck in the past and forced to blend in with her new/old contemporaries. While he’s English and in a modern alternative rock band, the Thomas Smith here is Irish and a doctor… and living in the 1920s. A common name, to be sure, but also the name of the frontman of one of my favorite bands, Editors. Second: One of the main characters is named Thomas Smith. I selfishly decided I should read it first.
My sister currently lives in Ireland, has taken some classes on Irish history, and even speaks a fair bit of Irish Gaelic I’d originally wanted to get this book for her to read. There are three reasons…įirst: It’s set in Ireland, and I have Irish ancestors on both parts of my family. But while the title and cover caught my eye, the summary catapulted it to the top of my to-buy list. Amy Harmon‘s What the Wind Knows gently fluttered into my awareness last year when I saw it featured in some bookish email newsletters.
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